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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Should twitter have its own data storage?

Now that twitter OAuth feature is in public beta, some people argue that twitter should also provide a data storage facility through their API. This would allow developers to add payloads to different twitter objects but would create another information silo, instead of leveraging existing data storage providers.
I agree with Kevin Marks when he asks ”Why [...]

Do you agree with twitter following limits?

Quoting the twitter status blog post  ”Twitter Status – A note about per day following limits.”:
While there are technical reasons behind having some limit on following activites, this per-day limit exists to discourage spamminess. Also, it is unlikely that anyone can actually read tweets from thousands of accounts which makes the mass following activity disingenuous.
What [...]

Testing the tarpipe Wordpress plugin

Testing
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The real time Web?

Much has been said about friendfeed’s latest UI redesign and how it enables a real time view of content from across the Web. Is it really real time? I mean, content is pulled periodically from other applications into friendfeed so that it can be displayed to the end user.
This post was triggered in part by [...]